[ale] OT New thread -new iMacs- Joe's question

[Joe Knapka]

William Fragakis wrote:

>one never buys extra ram from Apple if possible. After-market ram is 
>substantially cheaper. Sometimes in a refurb, you get a silent upgrade 
>of more ram, etc. Many refurbs are display models or ones used at 
>expos, etc, not necessarily something that crashed, burned and is being 
>pushed out the door again.
>
>I've seen some cheap G4 refurbs in the last few months if you don't 
>mind running a superdrive (dvd-burner) from firewire. When you start 
>adding airport, superdrive, etc, they start to get pricier.
>  
>
Luckily, my wife won't care about the superdrive, and iBooks have 
AirPort as a standard
feature.  Point taken about the RAM, though.  How hard are Apple 
products to work on,
compared to PCs?

-- JK